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I have good hunting buddies in a few friends and brother that I trust. While I prefer sharing camp with good friends, I actually prefer going out for the day hunting by myself and going where i want and at my pace.this is for big game. Prefer bird hunting with friends.

Kind of an anti-social hunter myself. Sounds like you guys have the same problem and that is two kinds of hunting buddies, ones you will never waste your time in the woods with again and ones who beg to go with you but you know better than to take them.

Elk I prefer to have a hunting partner, mainly for the driving out. Anything smaller I have no problem going alone and sometimes prefer it. I do have 2 good friends that I would take any time because we think a like, and don't have to worry about each other doing something stupid.

Have yet to find a hunting buddy that I trust in the backcounty and who has a schedule compatible with mine, I do Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado trips pretty consistently solo and I am planning an AK trip for next fall.

hunt elk solo for a week every year. I get to hunt the way I like, where I like and I always get to take the first shot.
Have some local friends I tag along with on their hunt, mostly archery. Bring up the rear, one more caller for them.
Mostly they like that i like to help pack out.

I take my horses once a year for a back country deer hunt solo. Usually 4 days. I don't have anyone to pack with, and I like getting away from the crowds. I'm getting older, so this year to keep my wife happy, I'm going on my first guided hunt for Elk. Usually I go solo for Elk, but not in the back country..

I frequently take solo trips. Quite often that is the way I have tried something new or hunted something different, because no one else wanted to try it. SHow it can be done and then the guys at home want to go. I prefer one good partner over solo, but its easy to get the best of both worlds with the right partner. More than that is too many. My only multi-person trip a year is rifle deer camp for opener, but thats a totally different hunt.

I frequently take solo trips. Quite often that is the way I have tried something new or hunted something different, because no one else wanted to try it. SHow it can be done and then the guys at home want to go. I prefer one good partner over solo, but its easy to get the best of both worlds with the right partner. More than that is too many. My only multi-person trip a year is rifle deer camp for opener, but thats a totally different hunt.

Sounds like a lot of us solo hunters are alike. Can't find friends to commit or they are afraid to try something new. I love exploring new places and new game. In November I'll be hunting deer and duck from a kayak and camping on the shoreline of Prince of Wales Island Alaska and I'll be solo. Had a friend who was supposed to go with me but he drew an awesome deer tag in CA. He drew G3 so I forgive him for bailing on me.

A lot of my archery elk hunting is done solo, and the majority of my successful elk hunts have been solo hunts. When I hunt elk with a partner, I feel it sometimes leads to "paralysis by analysis." When I'm on my own, I go with my gut, and sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't.